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djzidon
2273 days ago
what is $10MMM? that doesn't exist
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dharmon
2273 days ago
M is "thousand". MM is "thousand thousand", which is "million", and a fairly common shorthand. I haven't really seen it, but its pretty clear then that MMM is meant to be "thousand thousand thousand", i.e., billion.
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pb7
2272 days ago
You could have also written it as "$10B" and 100% of people would have understood what you're talking about without an explanation.
Why didn't you write 500M cars as well? Could it be that it's a stupid convention?
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